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File photo of recently confirmed Secretary of Energy nominee Ernest Moniz. (credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Senate Confirms Physicist Moniz As Energy Chief

Physicist Ernest Moniz won unanimous Senate confirmation Thursday to be the nation’s new energy secretary.

2013/05/16

President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan hold a joint press conference, during a rain shower, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., on May 16, 2013. (credit: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

Obama: I Have ‘Complete Confidence’ In Holder

President Barack Obama continues to back Attorney General Eric Holder following the fallout over the Justice Department secretly obtaining two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press.

2013/05/16

File photo of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. (credit: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)

GOP, Dems Challenge Holder Over Subpoenas To AP

Congressional Republicans and Democrats on Wednesday challenged Attorney General Eric Holder over the Justice Department’s handling of the investigation of national security leaks and its failure to talk to The Associated Press before issuing subpoenas for the news service’s telephone records.

2013/05/15

file photo of Sen. Chuck Schumer (credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Schumer Reviving Bill to Protect Media, Sources in Wake of Investigation Into AP

A top Senate Democrat plans to revive legislation that would protect journalists and their employers from revealing their sources, days after it was revealed that the Justice Department secretly obtained Associated Press phone records.

2013/05/15

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. (credit: Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)

Investigation Launched Into IRS Targeting of Tea Party Allegations

The Justice Department is opening a criminal investigation of the Internal Revenue Service just as another probe concludes that lax management enabled agents to improperly target tea party groups for extra scrutiny when they applied for tax exempt status.

2013/05/15

File photo of Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, left, and Attorney General Eric Holder. (credit: SAUL LOEB/AFP/GettyImages)

89 Charged In Medicare Fraud Busts In 8 Cities

Nearly 100 people, including 14 doctors and nurses, were charged for their roles in separate Medicare scams that collectively billed the taxpayer-funded program for roughly $223 million in bogus charges in a massive bust spanning eight cities, federal authorities said Tuesday.

2013/05/14

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney answers questions during a press briefing at the White House on May 10, 2013 in Washington, D.C. (credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

White House: We Had No Knowledge Of DOJ Attempts To Seek AP Phone Records

The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how news organizations gather the news.

2013/05/14

File photo of Attorney General Eric Holder. (credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Government Obtains Wide AP Phone Records In Probe

The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how news organizations gather the news.

2013/05/13

The government on Tuesday lowered to 15 the age at which girls can buy the morning-after pill without a prescription and said the emergency contraception no longer has to be kept behind pharmacy counters. (Credit: SSPL/Getty Images)

Justice Department to Appeal Morning-After Case

The Justice Department is appealing a judge’s decision lifting all age limits on the Plan B morning-after birth control pill and a cheaper generic.

2013/05/01

Visitors walk in front of the Supreme Court in Washington on March 22, 2013. (credit: NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)

White House Urges Supreme Court To Overturn Decision That Found Obama’s Recess Appointments Unconstitutional

The Obama administration on Thursday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a lower court decision that found the president’s recess appointments to a labor agency unconstitutional.

2013/04/26